
A photo of the GOP press conference, back when they were responding to Obama's decision on contraceptive rules. Note everyone in the picture is a bona fide "Hairy Old White Man", with nary a woman in sight. THESE are the folks who say that if YOUR DAUGHTER is raped...she must carry the baby to term.
JUST when you think the GOP couldn’t possibly lurch any further to the right, those ”Hairy Old White Men“ go and do something nutty. Today, the GOP announced that a major plank of their election platform will be a call for a Constitutional amendment that bans ALL abortions, including NO exceptions for women who are victims of rape or incest.
Imagine a teenage girl, as a victim of rape or incest. Imagine one of your FAMILY members as a victim of rape or incest. Would you be comfortable FORCING a woman to carry a child that came about due to a violent crime??!
It’s so nice to know that the Hairy Old White Men who dominate the GOP are SO in touch with women’s issues. Just a few days after Todd Akin makes his ridiculous comments about rape, the GOP establishment comes out themselves and basically says WE DON’T CARE ABOUT WOMEN’S RIGHTS.
What’s even more pathetic is that should Romney win the White House, and should Repubs. gain control of the Senate and keep control of the House…NOTHING WILL CHANGE on the abortion front. As I’ve said before…Repubs know their most reliable voting bloc are people who vote SOLELY because of the abortion issue. Republicans have controlled the White House and both the Senate and House before, and what happened on the abortion issue? Nothing. And that’s by design. They talk a good talk. They’ve talked a good talk for many years. But when push comes to shove, at a National level, nothing changes, and Republican politicians honestly have little motivation to change the status quo.
The Constitutional amendment ploy is purely political. It has zero chance of ever becoming the law of the land, even if Repubs tried to push it. But hey, it SOUNDS good to the ever wackier, ignorant, red-necked masses who make up the majority of the Republican constituency.

